J. Mark Ramseyer
American legal academic
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- PhD Economics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Mark Ramseyer is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is the author of over 10 books and 50 articles in scholarly journals. He is co-author of one of the leading corporations casebooks, Klein, Ramseyer & Bainbridge, Business Associations, Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Corporations, now in its 10th edition. In 2018 he was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in recognition of "his extensive contributions to the development of Japanese studies in the U.S. and the promotion of understanding toward Japanese society and culture."
J. Mark Ramseyer's Published Works
Published Works
- The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach (1994) (382)
- Explicit Reasons for Implicit Contracts: The Legal Logic to the Japanese Main Bank System (1993) (284)
- Credibly Committing to Efficiency Wages: Cotton Spinning Cartels in Imperial Japan (1993) (225)
- Judicial Independence in Civil Law Regimes: Econometrics from Japan (1996) (193)
- The Market for Children: Evidence from Early Modern Japan (1995) (189)
- Judicial Independence in a Civil Law Regime: The Evidence From Japan (1997) (145)
- The Fable of the Keiretsu (2001) (140)
- Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan (2003) (139)
- Naked Exclusion: Reply (2000) (134)
- Cheap bribes and the corruption ban: A coordination game among rational legislators (1994) (115)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan (1995) (104)
- Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (1999) (96)
- Why Are Japanese Judges So Conservative in Politically Charged Cases? (2001) (93)
- Convictions Versus Conviction Rates: The Prosecutor's Choice (2009) (90)
- Who Appoints Them, What Do They Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan (2002) (88)
- The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan (1989) (80)
- The Implications of Trade Credit for Bank Monitoring: Suggestive Evidence from Japan (2008) (79)
- Structure and policy in Japan and the United States (1996) (77)
- Trade Credit, Bank Loans, and Monitoring: Evidence from Japan (2005) (66)
- Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies: Lessons from the Prewar Japanese Cotton Textile Industry (2000) (64)
- Banks and Economic Growth: Implications from Japanese History (2000) (60)
- Why is the Japanese Conviction Rate so High? (2001) (57)
- Talent Matters: Judicial Productivity and Speed in Japan (2010) (53)
- Comparative Litigation Rates (2010) (52)
- Reluctant Litigant Revisited: Rationality and Disputes in Japan (1988) (49)
- The Costs of the Consensual Myth: Antitrust Enforcement and Institutional Barriers to Litigation in Japan (1985) (47)
- The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms. (1993) (42)
- The Myth of the Main Bank: Japan and Comparative Corporate Governance (2002) (39)
- Rethinking Relationship-Specific Investments: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automobile Industry (2000) (39)
- The fable of the keiretsu : urban legends of the Japanese economy (2006) (36)
- Why Power Companies Build Nuclear Reactors on Fault Lines: The Case of Japan (2011) (35)
- Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies: Lessons from the Pre-War Japanese Cotton Textile Industry (1999) (34)
- Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth (1996) (33)
- Indentured Prostitution in Imperial Japan: Credible Commitments in the Commercial Sex Industry (1991) (30)
- Lowering the Bar to Raise the Bar: Licensing Difficulty and Attorney Quality in Japan (2013) (30)
- The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993 (2005) (28)
- Executive Compensation in Japan: Estimating Levels and Determinants from Tax Records (2006) (27)
- The Value of Prominent Directors: Corporate Governance and Bank Access in Transitional Japan (2002) (26)
- Legal Rules in Repeated Deals: Banking in the Shadow of Defection in Japan (1991) (25)
- The Competitive Enforcement of Property Rights in Medieval Japan: The Role of Temples and Monasteries (2009) (22)
- Does Relationship Banking Matter? The Myth of the Japanese Main Bank (2005) (21)
- Does Ownership Matter? Evidence from the Zaibatsu Dissolution Program (2001) (20)
- Japanese industrial finance at the close of the 19th century: Trade credit and financial intermediation (2006) (20)
- Directed Credit? The Loan Market in High-Growth Japan (2004) (20)
- The Effect of Cost Suppression under Universal Health Insurance on the Allocation of Talent and the Development of Expertise: Cosmetic Surgery in Japan (2009) (18)
- Contracting for sex in the Pacific War (2021) (17)
- Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses (1999) (16)
- Mixing-and-Matching Across (Legal) Family Lines (2009) (16)
- Those Japanese Firms with Their Disdain for Shareholders: Another Fable for the Academy (1996) (16)
- Water Law in Imperial Japan: Public Goods, Private Claims, and Legal Convergence (1989) (16)
- The Industrial Organization of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Incomes (2006) (15)
- Thrift and Diligence. House Codes of Tokugawa Merchant Families (1979) (15)
- The Good Occupation (2005) (15)
- The Value of Prominent Directors: Lessons in Corporate Governance from Transitional Japan (1999) (15)
- Products Liability Through Private Ordering: Notes on a Japanese Experiment (1996) (13)
- Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law (2015) (13)
- The Industrial Organization of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income (2010) (12)
- Japanese law in context : readings in society, the economy, and politics (2001) (12)
- Are Americans More Litigious? Some Quantitative Evidence (2010) (12)
- THE EFFECT OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH INSURANCE ON MALPRACTICE CLAIMS (2010) (11)
- Toward a Theory of Jurisdictional Competition: The Case of the Japanese FTC (2005) (11)
- Conflicts of Interest in Japanese Insolvencies: The Problem of Bank Rescues (2005) (11)
- Distribution in Japan (2002) (10)
- Japanese Constitutional Law (1994) (10)
- Columbian Cartel Launches Bid for Japanese Firms (1993) (9)
- Cross-shareholding in the Japanese Keiretsu (1998) (9)
- Tax Transitions and the Protection Racket: A Reply to Professors Graetz and Kaplow (1989) (9)
- Social Capital and the Formal Legal System: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Data in Japan (2015) (9)
- Does Relationship Banking Matter? Japanese Bank-Borrower Ties in Good Times and Bad (2003) (9)
- Banks and Economic Growth: Implications from Japanese History* (2002) (9)
- Public and Private Firm Compensation Compared: Evidence from Japanese Tax Returns (2009) (9)
- Peer Effects in Affirmative Action: Evidence from Law Student Performance (2011) (7)
- Odd Markets In Japanese History: List of tables (1996) (7)
- Universal Health Insurance and the Effect of Cost Containment on Mortality Rates: Strokes and Heart Attacks in Japan (2009) (7)
- Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues.Ronald Dore (1988) (7)
- Law and Economics in Japan (2011) (7)
- The Politics of Oligarchy (1995) (7)
- Are Americans More Litigious (2013) (7)
- Outcaste Politics and Organized Crime in Japan: The Effect of Terminating Ethnic Subsidies (2017) (6)
- Litigation and Social Capital: Divorces and Traffic Accidents in Japan (2012) (6)
- Capitalist Politicians, Socialist Bureaucrats? Legends of Government Planning from Japan (2002) (6)
- The Japanese legal system : cases, codes, and commentary (2006) (6)
- The Fable of Land Reform: Expropriation and Redistribution in Occupied Japan (2012) (6)
- Skewed Incentives: Paying for Politics as a Japanese Judge (2000) (5)
- Sex Bias in the Japanese Courts (2007) (5)
- Liability for Defective Products : Comparative Hypotheses and Evidence from Japan (2013) (5)
- Political uncertainty's effect on judicial recruitment and retention: Japan in the 1990s (2007) (5)
- Deregulation and Market Response in Contemporary Japan : Administrative Guidance, Keiretsu, and Main Banks (2004) (5)
- Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences: The Japanese Supreme Court and the Chaos of 1993 (2008) (5)
- The Fable of the Keiretsu, and Other Tales of Japan We Wish Were True (2004) (4)
- The Fable of Land Reform: Leases and Credit Markets in Occupied Japan (2015) (4)
- Directed Credit? Capital Market Competition in High-Growth Japan (2001) (4)
- Do School Cliques Dominate Japanese Bureaucracies? Evidence from Supreme Court Appointments (2011) (4)
- Nuclear Power and the Mob: Extortion in Japan (2016) (4)
- Asking the Wrong Question: Changes of Governance in Historical Perspective? (2005) (4)
- Exclusive Dealing: Before, Bork, and Beyond (2013) (4)
- The Value of Prominent Directors (1999) (4)
- Japan's political marketplace : with a new preface (1997) (4)
- The End of Political Science? Rational Choice Analyses in Studies of Japanese Politics (1996) (4)
- On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan (2019) (4)
- Insider Trading Regulation in Japan (2011) (4)
- Nuclear Power and the Mob: Extortion and Social Capital in Japan (2015) (4)
- Can the Treasury Exempt Its Own Companies from Tax? The $45 Billion GM NOL Carryforward (2011) (4)
- Japanese Distribution: Background, Issues, Examples (2001) (4)
- The Myth of the Main Bank (2006) (4)
- The Multiple Roles of Banks? Convenient Tales from Modern Japan (2005) (4)
- Not-so-Ordinary Judges in Ordinary Courts: Teaching Jordan vs. Duff & Phelps (2006) (3)
- Japanese Contract and Anti-Trust Law: A Sociological and Comparative Study (review) (2005) (3)
- Bottom-Feeding at the Bar: Usury Law and Value-Dissipating Attorneys in Japan (2013) (3)
- Vertical integration in Japan : speculation from tax law and civil procedure (1997) (3)
- Japanese Economic Policy and Policy Evaluation―The Case of “Industrial Policy”― (2001) (3)
- Business associations : cases and materials on agency, partnerships, LLCs, and corporations (2015) (3)
- The Japanese Judiciary (2020) (3)
- Bonuses and Biases in Japanese Baseball (2007) (3)
- Social capital and the problem of opportunistic leadership: the example of Koreans in Japan (2020) (3)
- Financial Malaise and the Myth of the Misgoverned Firm (2001) (3)
- Apparel Distribution: Inter-Firm Contracting and Intra-Firm Organization (2001) (3)
- Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan (2007) (2)
- Does Corporate Governance Converge? The A-Contextual Logic to the Japanese Keiretsu (1997) (2)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: Notes (1995) (2)
- Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan (2012) (2)
- Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations : Cases and Materials (1991) (2)
- 10. Financial Malaise and the Myth of the Misgoverned Bank (2003) (2)
- Odd Markets In Japanese History: MARKETS: CHILDREN (1996) (2)
- The Good Occupation? Law in the Allied Occupation of Japan (2009) (2)
- Property Rights and Indigenous Tradition Among Early 20th Century Japanese Firms (2001) (2)
- Nuclear reactors in Japan: Who asks for them, what do they do? (2017) (2)
- Tax Law, Hiroshi Kaneko, and the Transformation of Japanese Jurisprudence (2010) (2)
- Automotive Infotainment Trends & Opportunities Driven By Integrated Media Content Availability (2006) (1)
- Industrial Finance Before the Financial Revolution: Japan at the Turn of the Last Century (2004) (1)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: FINANCIAL POLITICS (1995) (1)
- Chapter 1: Japanese Distribution: Background, Issues, Examples (2001) (1)
- Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: A Response to My Critics (2022) (1)
- Toward Contractual Choice in Marriage (1998) (1)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: RAILROAD POLITICS (1995) (1)
- Privatizing Police: Japanese Police, the Korean Massacre, and Private Security Firms (2019) (1)
- Odd Markets In Japanese History: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INSTITUTIONS AND DECISIONS (1996) (1)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: THE COURTS: WHO MONITORED WHOM? (1995) (1)
- Oko v. Sako--Kyogen and Litigation in Medieval Japan (1995) (1)
- Doctrines and Rents in Japan: A Comment on Professors Osuka and Nakamura (1990) (1)
- Comfort Women: The Economics of the Contracts and the Politics of the Dispute (2020) (1)
- Agency, Partnerships, and Limited Liability Entities: Unincorporated Business Associations: Cases and Materials (2001) (1)
- The Legislative Dynamic: Evidence from the Deregulation of Financial Services in Japan (2002) (1)
- Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan . By Peter J. Katzenstein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. xvi, 307 pp. $35.00. (1998) (1)
- Trivial Bribes and the Corruption Ban : A Coordination Game Among Rational Legislators (2001) (1)
- Managed Courts Under Unstable Political Environments: Recruitments and Resignations in the 1990s Japanese Judiciary (2006) (1)
- John Haley and the American Discovery of Japanese Law (2009) (1)
- The Mortality Effects of Cost Containment under Universal Health Insurance: The Japanese Experience (2008) (1)
- When are Judges and Bureaucrats Left Independent? Theory and History from Imperial Japan, Postwar Japan, and the United States (2001) (1)
- The Tax Incentives That Destroyed the Government : An Economic Analysis of Japanese Fiscal Policy, 645-1192 (Featured Theme: Law and Economics) (2000) (1)
- "The Effectiveness of Economic Controls: The Early Postwar Years in Japan --- Part II: Political Economy of Economic Controls"(in Japanese) (2004) (1)
- Comfort Women: The North Korean Connection (2022) (0)
- Kaiko kisei o toinaosu: kinsen kaiketsu no seido sekkei (Rethinking the Regulation of Employment Discharge: The Design of a Monetary Resolution System) (2019) (0)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: THE MILITARY: MASTER OF ITS OWN FATE (1995) (0)
- Toward a Party-Alternation Theory of Comparative Judicial Independence (2003) (0)
- Products Liability and Product Safety: Japan and the U.S. (2012) (0)
- The Effect of Judicial Decisions: Anti-Government Opinions and Electoral Law Disputes (2003) (0)
- Judicial Independence: Economic Theory and Japanese Empirics (2001) (0)
- "Policy Loans and Economic Growth: The Case of the Industrial Bank of Japan in Pre-war Japan"(in Japanese) (2000) (0)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: THE BUREAUCRACY: WHO RULED WHOM? (1995) (0)
- Corporate law : selected topics (1986) (0)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: CONCESSION OR FACADE: THE MEIJI CONSTITUTION (1995) (0)
- Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows v. Ringling: Bad Appointments and Empty-Core Cycling at the Circus (2008) (0)
- Book Review (1998) (0)
- On Privatizing Police, with Examples from Japan (2021) (0)
- Estimating Levels and Determinants from Tax Records (2008) (0)
- Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan (2020) (0)
- FACTS AND FICTIONS OF CORPORATE EXECUTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY (2020) (0)
- Contracting for Terroir in Sake (2021) (0)
- "2014 Amendments to the Corporate Code, "Corporate Governance Code", and "Outside Directors"" (in Japanese) (2015) (0)
- Criminal Cases: Suspects against the Government (2003) (0)
- Odd Markets In Japanese History: INTRODUCTION (1996) (0)
- Corporate Law Stories (2009) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Justice in Japan: The Notorious Teijin Scandal Richard H. Mitchell (2003) (0)
- Corporate Governance in Transitional Economies: (0)
- 2015 Private Orderings (2017) (0)
- Business associations : agency, partnerships, and corporations : 2003 statutes and rules (1999) (0)
- Together Duped--How Japanese and Amaericans Negotiated a Constitution without Communicating (1990) (0)
- Cases and materials, agency, partnerships, and limited liability entities : unincorporated business associations (2001) (0)
- Nuclear reactors in Japan: Who asks for them, what do they do? (2017) (0)
- Fiduciary Principles in Japanese Law (2017) (0)
- Takeovers in Japan : the risk of shareholder oppotunism (1986) (0)
- Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income (2008) (0)
- October 15, 2010 -- Annual Conference: Fiduciary Duties in Closely Held Firms 35 Years After Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home -- Panel 4, Beyond "Corporate" Law (2010) (0)
- Bidding for Ballplayers: A Research Note (2008) (0)
- Stacking the Friday Workshop: An Introduction (2007) (0)
- Law & Economics in Japan (2010) (0)
- Odd Markets In Japanese History: Series editors' preface (1996) (0)
- And of Outside Directors (2006) (0)
- PROPERTY: WATER AND LAND (1996) (0)
- Naked Exlusion: Reply (2000) (0)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: References (1995) (0)
- Contracting for Geothermal in Japan (2020) (0)
- アメリカから見た日本法 = An American perspective on Japanese law (2019) (0)
- Odd Markets In Japanese History: EXTERNALITIES: SMOKE AND NOISE (1996) (0)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: INTRODUCTION (1995) (0)
- Economizing Legal D-B8 (2005) (0)
- A New Publisher (2011) (0)
- Legends of Government Guidance (2006) (0)
- ELECTORAL RULES AND PARTY COMPETITION: THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL SURVIVAL (1995) (0)
- Junichiro Wada, the Japanese election system: Three analytical perspectives (1997) (0)
- Japan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report (1981) (0)
- Political Disputes: Military, Malapportionment, Injunctions, and Constitutional Law (2003) (0)
- Win Some, Lose Some (1996) (0)
- "The Effectiveness of Economic Controls: The Early Postwar Years in Japan --- Part I: The Effectiveness of Economic Controls"(in Japanese) (2004) (0)
- Administrative Disputes: Taxpayers against the Government (2003) (0)
- CARTELS: COTTON SPINNING (1996) (0)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: COTTON POLITICS (1995) (0)
- General comments: afterword (2014) (0)
- Property Rights in Medieval Japan: The Role of Buddhist Temples and Monasteries (2007) (0)
- The Japanese Consumer: An Alternative History of Modern Japan. By Penelope Francks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 249. $32.99, paper (2010) (0)
- The Beguiling Appeal of Banks (2007) (0)
- Contracting for Compassion in Japanese Buddhism (2020) (0)
- Toward a Theor y of Jurisdictional Competition: The C ase of the Japanese FTC (2004) (0)
- Ostracism in Japan (2020) (0)
- NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository (2001) (0)
- Odd Markets In Japanese History: PROMISSORY CREDIBILITY: SEX (1996) (0)
- Visions of the Republic Symposium: Facts and Fictions of Corporate Executive Accountability (2020) (0)
- Japan and Comparative Corporate Governance (2016) (0)
- Enterprise Law Conference of 2014: Edited Transcript (2014) (0)
- Japanese antitrust enforcement after the oil embargo (1983) (0)
- The Cost of Kipling (2006) (0)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: CONCLUSION: INSTITUTIONS AND POLITICAL CONTROL (1995) (0)
- And of the Zaibatsu (2006) (0)
- Preliminary Empirics: Methodology and Communist Judges (2003) (0)
- Odd Markets In Japanese History: AUTONOMY: FAMILY LAW (1996) (0)
- Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law (review) (2012) (0)
- THE COLLAPSE OF OLIGARCHY: FAILED ATTEMPTS AT CARTEL-MAINTENANCE (1995) (0)
- "The Fable of the Keiretsu: "Keiretsu" in Keiretsu no Kenkyu"(in Japanese) (2000) (0)
- The Politics of Oligarchy: Series editors' preface (1995) (0)
- Are Reactors Like Casinos? A Culture of Dependency in Japan (2017) (0)
- Japanese law : readings in the political economy of Japanese law (2001) (0)
- Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965 by Bai Gao:Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965. (1998) (0)
- Discrimination in Modern Japan (0)
- The Sins of Their Fathers: Illegitimacy in Japan and Surrogate Punishment Across Generations (2015) (0)
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